1. I had the strangest dream last night. Must have beenall the chulent. I dreamed that in all of the coverage of the attacks on the Catholic school children walking to school in the Protestant neighborhood of Belfast this week, including on the BBC, CNN, LA Times, Washington Post, etc., the coverage always went as follows:

   “Today some Protestant activists threw pipe bombs at settler children in revenge for their occupation of Protestant lands. True we think such violence is unfortunate, but - after all - those Catholics had it coming. The Ulster Protestants are subject to such oppression that it is entirely understandable that some of them will throw pipe bombs at Catholic children.

   "After all, they have been left with no other recourse. While we condemn the bomb throwing by the activists and the militants, let us note that the children walking to school were equally to blame. Their presence in lands where they do not below is the underlying cause of the bombing. It is regretable but the cycle of violence must be stopped, and the best way to stop it is to remove those Catholic children from Protestant areas in which they do not belong.”

   Then of course the alarm clock went off and I woke up. I quickly realized it had all been a dream. In reality, the world media, especially the British media, were soiling themselves in anguish over the horrid attacks on children by the depraved Unionist terrorists. Insisting that action must be taken at once to bring the horrific terrorists to justice, including armed intervention.

   Only one itsy bitsy problem here. The British media, and the world media, have long held the view that murderous attacks on Jewish children are a perfectly legitimate form of protest. It PROVES how just the Palestinian cause must be, for why else would they be targeting children? It shows how DESPARATE the Palestinians must be to obtain their due! And the only permissible response by Israel to murders of its children by Palestinian “activists” and “militants”, such as at the Tel Aviv Dolphinarium, is to seek terms and talks with the murderers. When a horde of Palestinians attacked hiking school children in the West Bank town of Beita a few years back, as a result of which one girl was killed, the whole world’s media (and the Israeli Left) were screaming that the children had no business being there in the first place and that if Israel insists on provoking the Arabs by allowing children to hike on or near their turf, then what else can be expected? Indeed, the so-called “human rights watchdog” group Betselem, in reality a transparent front of Israeli leftist propagandists for the PLO, condemned Israel for having provoked the Arabs into attacking the children by allowing them to hike there!

   The Israeli Left still believes that the world media spend so much time bashing Israel because Israel is an “occupier” (never mind that it removed its “occupation” of almost all of the West Bank and Gaza Strip years ago), and Israel is insensitive. This is why the only permissible response to Arab nazis murdering Jewish children is to seek terms with the killers, to make more concessions to them, to send Shimon Peres to grovel before them,, whereas shooting missiles at the murderers makes Israel a criminal state, a nation of murderers, little better than Nazi Germany.

   But the differential responses of the media to the attacks on children in Israel and in Belfast belie this belief. Arab terrorism, like German Nazism, always targeted Jewish children with special intensivity. Israel, unlike the Belfast Catholics, never conducted a campaign of indiscriminant terrorism against its opponents, never bombing indiscriminantly the children and civilians of its enemy. The media inconsistency is explained by the fact that much of the world media is dominated by medieval gutter anti-Semitism. I have long believed that Israel should simply expell the reporters for the BBC, the Economist and anyone else engaged in promoting the PLO and bashing Israel instead of news reporting. SO what would they do if their people were expelled – start printing biased anti-Israel propaganda as reporting?

   And the result of all the Israeli Osloid goodwill and peaceful signalling and concessions? The world media cheering on the most racist states on the planet declaring in Durban that the only state in the Middle East which is NOT a racist state must be destroyed as a “racist state”!!!!

2. Wondering who put up the money for those Pseudo-Rabbinc clowns walking about Durban with signs that read, “True Rabbis Oppose Zionism”? Well, we believe we have found the answer:

Yeshiva and the Mob
Feds: Gotti washed cash through B’klyn school

By GREG B. SMITH

Daily News Staff Writer

Mob-controlled strip club used a yeshiva run by the city’s biggest Hasidic sect to launder cash for crime boss John A. (Junior) Gotti, federal prosecutors have charged.

The scheme orchestrated by the owners of Scores, the upscale strip club, apparently was carried out without the knowledge of the Satmars, the sect that operates Yeshiva Yetev Lev D’Jerusalem of Williamsburg, Brooklyn.

At least one yeshiva board member, Isack Rosenberg, served as a conduit for the cash, but says he had no idea it was going to Gotti.

Details of the money laundering emerged last month in the final days of the Gold Club trial in Atlanta, where prosecutors alleged Gotti received $100,000 to settle a dispute between gangsters fighting for control of Scores.

The East Side club was secretly controlled by the Gambinos in the mid-1990s.

According to testimony in the Gold Club case, in June 1995 Rosenberg was asked by a lawyer connected to Scores to obtain a large sum of cash.

With Rosenberg’s okay, the lawyer then wrote two checks to the yeshiva from an entity called the First Avenue Nite Club Corp., which owned the now-defunct Chippendales male strip club on the East Side.

The two checks totaling $100,000 were deposited in the yeshiva account, and Rosenberg says he told yeshiva board members the money was a "loan."

Rosenberg says he then wrote checks totaling $100,000 to his lumber company, which then provided $95,000 in cash for the transaction. He kept a $5,000 fee for himself.

Rosenberg says he delivered the cash to Scores co-owner Lyle Pfeffer at Scores’ corporate office in midtown.

Pfeffer -- who pleaded guilty to fraud charges and cooperated with the government -- said he gave the cash to Craig DePalma, a mob soldier. DePalma told the Gold Club grand jury he later handed it to Gotti at a Long Island wedding.

Gotti pleaded guilty to numerous racketeering charges in 1999 and is serving a six-year sentence. His lawyer, Gerald Shargel, noted that Gotti did not admit to participation in the Scores shakedown.

Rosenberg’s lawyer, Samuel Burstyn, said his client deeply regrets involving the yeshiva in the transaction.

"Unequivocally, I can tell you that Mr. Rosenberg never had any inkling that this transaction would lead into the Gotti crime syndicate," Burstyn said. "He was trying to help out a friend, and he was deceived about the true purpose of the loan."

Officials at Yeshiva Yetev Lev D’Jerusalem did not return several calls for comment. Burstyn said Rosenberg is no longer affiliated with the yeshiva.

3. You Hackers for Zion been at it again?

   Go to the Syria Times search function, put in the word "Zionist" - and up pops an ad to "Do the Zionist thing" and plant a tree online from the JNF Tree Planting Center.

   See:  http://sitelevel.whatuseek.com/query.go?crid=45e048676a12aec9&query=zionist&slice_title=site

   You gotta hand it to JNF - they never miss a chance to find a new tree planter.

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